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Journal article
Methodological Approaches to Understanding Causes of Health Disparities
American journal of public health (1971), v 109(S1), pp S28-S33
Jan 2019
PMID: 30699015
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Abstract
Understanding health disparity causes is an important first step toward developing policies or interventions to eliminate disparities, but their nature makes identifying and addressing their causes challenging. Potential causal factors are often correlated, making it difficult to distinguish their effects. These factors may exist at different organizational levels (e.g., individual, family, neighborhood), each of which needs to be appropriately conceptualized and measured. The processes that generate health disparities may include complex relationships with feedback loops and dynamic properties that traditional statistical models represent poorly. Because of this complexity, identifying disparities' causes and remedies requires integrating findings from multiple methodologies. We highlight analytic methods and designs, multilevel approaches, complex systems modeling techniques, and qualitative methods that should be more broadly employed and adapted to advance health disparities research and identify approaches to mitigate them.
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- Title
- Methodological Approaches to Understanding Causes of Health Disparities
- Creators
- Neal Jeffries - Drexel UniversityAlan M Zaslavsky - Drexel UniversityAna V Diez Roux - Drexel UniversityJohn W Creswell - National Institutes of HealthRichard C Palmer - Drexel UniversitySteven E Gregorich - Drexel UniversityJames D Reschovsky - Drexel UniversityBarry I Graubard - Drexel UniversityKelvin Choi - Drexel UniversityRuth M Pfeiffer - Drexel UniversityXinzhi Zhang - Drexel UniversityNancy Breen - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- American journal of public health (1971), v 109(S1), pp S28-S33
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000457151400009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85060905936
- Other Identifier
- 991019169110604721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health